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Yay! I got my Morrison books back, which I can kill off my urge to annotate the Bat-Christ, and y'all can post and tell me how wrong every bit is. To cover a bit, some notes are phrased as questions, rather than just say things that may appear stupid shortly after posting.
There will be some stupid comments anyway, surely.
Someone with the new edition can probably do a lot better.
Pages 01 & 02 - Of course you need wood and nails for a passion play, well, if you want to be literalist about it.
Is that a map of the asylum?
Pages 03-04 - The 'X' overlapping the rectangle seems connected to the comments-in-boxes at the end of the book.
What does the writing say?
An early bat, Icaronycteris, fossil. Interesting (to me) that it has a noticeable tail (unlike most bats), and Bats get goosed later on, not to mention his inability to, y'know, let it all hang out.
Pages 05-06 - No ideas, really. More 'X's and more writing.
Pages 07-08 - Broken watch has it's time set to, I think, the same time the Wayne Manor clock had to be set to as to open the way to the Cave.
The red string has nothing to do with Cap. Britain's brother, but a very Morrisonian thing to do, yeah? Characters from one fictional universe controlling events in another company's sandbox?
Pages 09-10 - Lewis Caroll quote.
Two towers and a moon.
I'm going to ignore both Alice and tarot, for the rest of the book. Someone with more tenacity can hack the repetitive, or I'll do it later.
Page 11 - House as world. Another world uncovered necessitates another house.
Pages 12 - Beetles are a symbol of change. See every third and second issue of 'The Invisibles' for corollary.
Page 13 - Map of asylum, again.
Is there a stain on my copy's page, or is there a light BARBELiTH on Arkham's momma's hand?
Does the fourth panel (of the cup falling) look like a side-view of a boy's head, to anyone else? Ear/handle and such?
Page 14 - Facial erasure.
Page 15 - I'm never going to read this page again without 'Don't tell the GCPD about this; ever.' and his scifi closet of gooey lovey goodness.
Batman's crossed out - how 'bout that?
It's black and white outside the asylum, as it Bat's dialogue, but that's the other-way-round from most people's.
Page 16 - Even if Joker's April Fools joke(s) aren't up your alley, at least it's the right day.
Page 17 - Joker gets in the first of many jabs are Bat's sexual repression.
Page 18 - Another house.
Page 21 - Pearl starts it for Arkham and for Bats.
Page 22 - Dog's are annoying; mad dogs especially.
Bats, apparently, can be just as annoying.
Page 23 - Arkham came from Metropolis to Gotham. From the house/world of sanity to the house/world of well, Gotham.
Martin Hawkins; annoying dog.
Page 24 - Facial erasure, repression and inability to feel.
Page 25 - There's a sun above, then there's a moon on his head. Of course he feels like a child again.
Page 26 - The sexual repression jumps up and shouts for attention again with the 'tunnel of love' making an appearance.
Page 27 - What is the white powder Bats has been mucking about with for the past few pages? Sugar? Sand?
Page 28 - You have to love Joker's pinned eyes. At least he has pupils, something Bats is missing.
Page 29 - Violence is funny, even when no one gets hurt.
Pearl reminds me of someone? Any guesses?
Page 30 - Anubis, an annoying dog.
Aside from untightening the Bat-ass, is there a little chakra loosening here?
Bats just has a general no-touch-rule in his life - at least, eighties psycho-repressed Bats. Uber-Bats has got to enjoy at least a few non-Talia hays in the roll, yeah?
And that's as far into that as I'm going to get right now. Anyone want to add, correct, and otherwise surpass? |
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